On Thursday 2006-12-14 23:04 -0500, JoeS wrote: > Perhaps someone with a few spare cycles can enlighten me on this. > I always thought that "view message source" was an actual decode of the > original source code that generated an html document. > David Baron checked in a fix (thanks for that David) for RSS feeds in > Thunderbird that led me to the conclusion that this is not so. > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363154 > Viewing message source with Thunderbird builds before and after the fix > shows different content.(although the actual content did not really change) > My conclusion is that "view message source" is just a "view" of the DOM > tree as interpreted by Gecko, and not a real representation of the > actual source code.
View Message Source is showing you the source of the mail message. The way the RSS support in Thunderbird works is by converting each item in the feed into a mail message. One of the things I did was change slightly the format of that conversion. This means that the mail message stored in the mailbox is different. -David -- L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ > Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla Corporation
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